Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

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Identifikator:: 1801857903

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-199077

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Foreign trade zones (or free ports)

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States Government Printing Off.

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: IX, 322 S; Ill., graph. Darst

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part 1. General analysis

Collection:: Economics Books

50 FOREIGN TRADE ZONES umber, timber, iron, stones, phosphate, sugar, soya, flaxseed, cereals, salted herrings, cellulose, pig iron, and cement. In the case of Cadiz, it is found that virtually all the merchandise handled is destined for the provisioning of steamers. The transship- ment trade at this port is reported as being negligible. During the past few years a few American, French, and Italian motor vehicles have been received in the free zone for transshipment to other Mediter- ranean markets, but this trade has been but a minor factor in the activities of the zone as a whole. The volume of goods transshipped, or stored and later reshipped, at Barcelona has thus far been small. However, this port is looked upon as a logical distributing center for the western Mediterranean and especially for north Africa and the Canary Islands, and there is no reason why these classes of trade should not increase substantially in the future. At present the trade is necessarily limited by the exist- ing facilities of the free deposit. An increase in the facilities is contemplated in the future. The principal goods in the transshipment trade of Santander are chemical fertilizers from Chile; corn from Argentina; cacao from Cen- tral America; coffee from Central America and Brazil; automobiles from the United States; machinery from the United States, England, and Germany; gasoline, lubricants, petroleum, gas oil, and fuel oil from the United States and Russia. At the free ports of Almeria and Bilbao there is little transship- ment or consignment business done, and that is confined principally to petroleum. Consignment trade at Naples is made up chiefly of colonial goods, such as coffee, sugar, mineral oils, machinery, etc. These commodities are usually stored within the free port for the purpose of mixing various substances imported from abroad, preparatory to subsequent ex- portation. Naples is not an important transshipment port and only a small quantity of goods are reexported in the same condition as imported. Consignment trade at Leghorn consists principally of such goods as coffee, tea, sugar, spices, and olive and mineral oils. It is estimated that the turnover of such goods amounts to approximately 25 per sent of the total trade handled. The industrial plants in the new port of Venice at present do not reexport their output to any considerable extent. They produce almost wholly for domestic consumption, which reduces the impor- tance of the free port facilities. Venice may be said to have little port traffic, which might be considered truly in transit, and this is another reason why free port facilities are not regarded as vital to the interest of the port.

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